What is Generative AI good for? Introduction to the special issue on Generative AI in software engineering

IF 4.3 2区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2025-07-25 DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2025.107857

Viktoria Stray, Geir Kjetil Hanssen, Astri Barbala, Darja Šmite, Klaas-Jan Stol

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Abstract

A major question that can be asked of any new major technology or innovation is: what is it good for? For this special issue, we invited manuscripts that answer exactly that question in the context of Generative AI and Software Engineering. We received 33 submission, which underwent a rigorous peer review process. This process led to inclusion of 13 manuscripts, which we organized according to McGrath’s Group Task typology in this editorial. In doing so, we acknowledge that not all tasks are equal, and we demonstrate the breadth of tasks that GenAI can assist in. This set of curated articles provides a variety of interesting applications and studies of GenAI technology. We conclude this editorial with an outlook on the future.

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生成式人工智能有什么好处？软件工程中生成式人工智能专题介绍

对于任何新的重大技术或创新，可以提出的一个主要问题是：它有什么好处？在本期特刊中，我们邀请了在生成式人工智能和软件工程的背景下准确回答这个问题的手稿。我们收到了33份意见书，经过了严格的同行评审过程。这个过程包含了13份手稿，我们根据McGrath的小组任务类型学在这篇社论中进行了组织。在这样做的过程中，我们承认并非所有任务都是平等的，我们展示了GenAI可以帮助完成的任务的广度。这组策划的文章提供了GenAI技术的各种有趣的应用和研究。我们以对未来的展望来结束这篇社论。

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Information and Software Technology 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

CiteScore

9.10

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

9.6 weeks

期刊介绍： Information and Software Technology is the international archival journal focusing on research and experience that contributes to the improvement of software development practices. The journal''s scope includes methods and techniques to better engineer software and manage its development. Articles submitted for review should have a clear component of software engineering or address ways to improve the engineering and management of software development. Areas covered by the journal include: • Software management, quality and metrics, • Software processes, • Software architecture, modelling, specification, design and programming • Functional and non-functional software requirements • Software testing and verification & validation • Empirical studies of all aspects of engineering and managing software development Short Communications is a new section dedicated to short papers addressing new ideas, controversial opinions, "Negative" results and much more. Read the Guide for authors for more information. The journal encourages and welcomes submissions of systematic literature studies (reviews and maps) within the scope of the journal. Information and Software Technology is the premiere outlet for systematic literature studies in software engineering.